Button snap



F. L. KELLY Sept. 6, 1938.

BUTTON SNAP Filed Nov. 23, 1936 Patented spf. 6, 193s i PATENT OFFICE `2,129,351; BUTTON SNAP Francis L. Kelly, Glendale, Calif. y Application Nnvember z3, 1936, serial Ne. 112,209

1 Claim.

This invention relates generally to a garment snap and in particular relates to a snap for garment buttons. V

When men's and womens garments are sent to l the cleaners, the buttons are often bleached or otherwise damaged, resulting in much annoyance. Too, if buttons which are sewn to a garment are removed prior to the cleaning process,- it necessitates the resewing of the same on the garment l before it can be worn again. Such resewing of the buttons is costly to the cleaning concerns because of the labor involved.

It is therefore my principal object to provide a snap for garment buttons arranged topermit the ready removal from and replacement of the buttons on a garment, I

Another object of my invention is to provide a snap constructed and arranged for use in connection with buttons which cooperate with button holes to maintain separate garment sections together.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purpose for u which it 1s designed.

These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

In the drawing similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

Fig. 1 is an enlarged side elevation, partly in section, of one form of snap preferably for use with ornamental buttons, such as those employed on womens outer garments of various kinds.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation, partly in section, of another form of snap designed for use with buttons which engage through button holes.

Referring now more particularly to the char- 40 acters of reference on the drawing, and particularly at present to Fig. 1, the button snap comprises cooperating male and female portions. 'I'he male portion is formed of a circular base I sewn to the outer surface of the garment 2 by 45 means of stitching 3 which passes through holes in the base. A very short axial neck 4 projects centrally from the base I and is formed at its outer end with an enlarged and rounded head 5.

50 The female portion comprises ay circular disc 6 secured to the back of a button by suitable means, such as prongs 1, which engage in the body of a button B. The disc 6 curves outward slightly from the' circumference to the center, the center u being provided witha circular opening.` Spring.

fingers 8 project inwardly from the disc 5 about the opening and form a socket, said lingers being* stamped integral with the disc and curved slightly to frictionally engage with the head 5 when the snap portions are `in engagement in the manner I shown in Fig. 1.

The button snap above described secures a button firmly in place, the fingers 8 engaging head 5 with suflicient grip to prevent accidental separation of the snap portions. However, when the l garment is to be cleaned, the snap portions may be readily disengaged and the button removed. The snap illustrated in Fig. 1 maintains the button close to the garment and is therefore intended preferably for use in connection with ornal mental buttons as are commonly used on womens outer garments.

The snap illustrated in Fig. 2 is designed for use with a button which engages through a button hole to maintain separate garment sections together. With this type of snap, the female portion comprises a disc 9 secured to the under section I 0 of the garment by stitches II. This disc 9 is of the same configuration as disc l and is formed with a like central socket including spring fingers I2.

The male portion includes a base I3 secured to the back of button BB in any suitable manner.

A relatively long'neck I4, having an enlarged,

rounded head I5, projects axially from the center of base I3. A circular collar I5 is formed integral with neck I4 and is disposed at such a point that when head I5 is firmly and frictionally engaged in the socket in disc 9, the collar will engage the disc 9 in face to face relation and prevent accidental movement of neck I4 out of its normal axial plane.. and thus prevents accidental separation of the head from the socket.

The neck I4 normally extends through a button hole H in the outer section I'I of the garment, the button BB holding the garment section I 1 overlapping section Ill. As the length of neck I4 is at least the thickness of the garment section Il, such section will be disposed loosely beneath the button and will not bind between the base I3 and collar I6. To remove the button from the garment, it only is necessary to unsnap head I5 from the socket in disc 9.

From .the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced such a device as substantially fullls the objects of the invention as` set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device,

still in practice such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not formv a departure from the spirit of the invention, as defined by the appended claim.

Having thus described nur invention, what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A button having a relatively large head, a sha1- low cupped disc disposed in inverted relation against the back of the head and with its rim depressed into the head to locate said disc on the of' the back oi the head to the disc about the central opening thereof being slightly greater than that from the back of the head to the disc at its rim.

FRANCIS L. KELLY. 

